← Back to dex
Common star 19 EP

Lucilinburhuc

RA 97.1905° · Dec 38.9630° · star

Loading sky survey…
🌌 View in 3D star map
Tonight’s visibility

Computing the sky for your location…

Score breakdown

· 3 badges
19 pts · Common
Common 22 pts → Uncommon
  • Has a proper name +8
  • Sun-like G-type star +8
  • Star +3
Total score 19

3 more points to reach Uncommon.

Badges

  • Star · +3
  • Has a proper name · +8
  • Sun-like G-type star · +8

Trivia

What it actually is

  • Spectral class. Its spectrum reads G5 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

Sense of scale

  • In perspective. Far away by human standards, yet still a local address inside the Milky Way's spiral arms.

Find it in the sky

  • How to spot it. At magnitude 7.9 it is just past naked-eye reach — ordinary binoculars will pull it in, over in Auriga.
  • Northern sky. It rides the northern half of the sky — an easier target the further north you are.
  • Best time of year. It stands highest in the middle of the night around December — that's when to go looking.

Could we get there?

  • Verdict. Hopelessly far for any craft humanity can build today.

Getting there

  • Aboard Voyager 1. ≈ 2.8 million years at Voyager 1's speed (17 km/s).
  • Fastest probe ever. ≈ 248.9 thousand years even at the Parker Solar Probe's 192 km/s.

Properties

absmag
4.445
bv
0.74
constellation
Aur
dist ly
159.4117
luminosity
1.4521
mag
7.89
name
Lucilinburhuc
named
yes
spect
G5

About Lucilinburhuc

Lucilinburhuc is a common star. It lies about 159.4 light-years from Earth, sits in the constellation Aur, shines at apparent magnitude 7.89 and has spectral type G5.

Its spectrum reads G5 — a G-type star: the very same spectral class as our own Sun.

How to see it

Look for Lucilinburhuc in the constellation Aur. At apparent magnitude 7.89, it is an easy target for binoculars.

Like any astronomical target, Lucilinburhuc is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.

Why Lucilinburhuc is a common star

Lucilinburhuc scores 19 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the common tier. Another 3 points would lift it into a rarer tier.

That score comes from 3 science badges — Star, Has a proper name and Sun-like G-type star — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.